response has gotten very slow when opening pull down menus since downloading 3.6.13
when selecting pull down menus, response that was nearly immediate before updating to 3.6.13 has turned to response of 5 or more seconds. IE 7.0 is a least 10 times faster when painting a frequently visited site.
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I switched to Mozilla because I did not like IE but this lack of prompt responses has become intolerable and if it continues I will have to switch back to IE or go to another browser.
It is only 1 day ...over weekend :). Anyway. Just wanted to ad one more thing to what you say. The pages loading slower than usual are actually loading slower in the other browsers I use for testing too (opera and IE). So I went and tested the sites on a different computer without firefox. The page loaded on IE ... instantly. Also tested on another computer with firefox but without the last patch ... "instant"page load. I can only assume that the patch modified something in the system settings. I will do more tests and see if i find something ... more precise.
OK ... since you are the only other discussing this issue, would you please confirm whether the links I pasted bellow load slow in some way ... and which part of it exactly?
G Guild - IT Support (for me the right column loads slower ... on all browsers on the system with the last Ff patch)
Virgin (the delay in loading on this one is actually for the whole page)
Modified by chrisgabrielc
Shortly after posting the problem I noticed another window appear in Firefox. I found that it was difficult to close but after I did the slowness and the difficulty getting the pull-down menus on the top bar to pull down disappeared. I no longer have the slowness. Pull-downs pull down almost instantly as do new sub windows. In my old telephone company days we would use the expression CCWT (came clear while testing). It is almost like someone discovered something wrong in a line of code and initiated a quick patch.
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So weird ... my problems disappeared too for absolutely no reason.
I'm running Firefox 3.6.13 on Fedora 14 and I've been having the same issues. I *know* it's not Norton because I don't have Norton, or any other anti virus software save the system. firewall. I'm getting rabidly PO'd that I cant even open Firefox without it hanging and more often then not I find myself having to force quit it when I close. It's not the internet because Opera runs just fine. I'm thinking it's the UI in Firefox, or something about how it runs that's just decimating my RAM and slowing it way down.